Gabor regained consciousness and was taken off a ventilator early yesterday morning, according to her husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt. "She is getting better by the hour," he said.
Von Anhalt is Gabor's eighth husband. Previous spouses included hotel magnate Conrad Hilton and the late actor George Sanders.
License to kill
* There is a decided lack of harmony in the music world this week. Pop maestro Elton John is slamming fellow hit-maker Madonna for "Die Another Day," her theme song for the new 007 movie.
"It hasn't got a tune," Sir Elton railed to a British tabloid. "James Bond themes are usually very camp and this one's different. It is the worst Bond tune of all time."
That's a pretty harsh assessment, given that 007 hasn't had a decent theme song since Shirley Bassey's "Goldfinger" in 1964. You have to sink awfully low to rank beneath Duran Duran's "View to a Kill" in 1985.
But apparently Madonna has sunk that low, because Elton isn't the only one taking potshots at her latest offering. David Arnold, the film's composer, reportedly told London's Sunday Express: "Ideally, I would have liked to make some musical sense of her song, but I couldn't."
Ouch! And you thought the hat-flinging Oddjob was tough.
Stamp of approval
* Will & Grace star Sean Hayes got generally high marks from critics for his performance as dippy comedian Jerry Lewis in Sunday's CBS movie Martin and Lewis.
Now the viewer he was most concerned with pleasing has checked in: Lewis himself. "Sean Hayes is as good as anyone I've ever seen in my life," the 76-year-old cutup told AP Radio. "I'm sitting there hearing him pick up my rhythm. And my beats, which are all mine, and a lot of people would love to have them, but it's tough. You either have them or you don't, and he's right on the money every time. I'm hysterical laughing at this kid!"
Sounds as if someone has earned himself an invitation to next Labor Day's telethon.
Eligible no more
